Word Meanings - WARNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WARNING)

• Admonition
• Warning
• advice
• counsel
• caution
• reproof
• Counsel
• Advice
• instruction
• monition
• admonition
• warning
• recommendation
• Lesson
• Precept
• lecture
• homily
• information

Related words: (words related to WARNING)

• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• MONITION
  A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer. (more info) to mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Admonish, Money, 1. Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• HOMILY
  1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak. 2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron.
• PRECEPTRESS
  A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
• COUNSEL
  fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• COUNSELOR
  conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• PRECEPTORY
  Preceptive. "A law preceptory." Anderson .
• PRECEPTOR
  1. One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. 2. The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.
• PRECEPTIVE
  Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. The lesson given us here is preceptive to us. L'Estrange.
• CAUTIONER
  A surety or sponsor. (more info) 1. One who cautions or advises.
• COUNSELORSHIP
  The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
• COUNSELABLE
  1. Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon. 2. Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
• LECTURER
  One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
• REPROOF
  1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. 2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope. Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension;
• RECOMMENDATION
  1. The act of recommending. 2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations. 3. The state of being
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• INCAUTION
  Want of caution. Pope.
• COMMONITION
  Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
• DISCOUNSEL
  To dissuade. Spenser.
• PRECAUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals.